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This Teacher’s Guide provides questions to frame a unit, along with activities that use newspapers and resources for history, literature, and music education.

The Reconstruction Era This Teacher’s Guide provides compelling questions to frame a unit of study and inquiry projects on the Reconstruction Era, includes NEH sponsored multimedia resources, activity ideas that include use of newspapers from the time and interdisciplinary approaches to bring social studies, ELA, and mu...

Why do you think ’s story is not well known?

This resource recognizes the consequences of the absence of sites associated with and underscores the challenges of conducting historical research on enslaved people.

The Long Road to Freedom: Biddy Mason’s Remarkable Journey Long Road to Freedom is an NEH-funded digital humanities project that documents the transformative journey of Biddy Mason from enslavement in Georgia to becoming a landowner and community organizer in Los Angeles.

Consider the multiple perspectives of the through the popular literature of the time by authors such as Frederick Douglass, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and more!

Literature of the Civil War Read and discuss some of the great American writers and their work in the mid-19th century. This feature explores the themes of slavery, the role of women, and the experience of war.